Boris Johnson has admitted it is “touch and go” whether COP26 would be a success and he was “very worried”.
The Prime Minister, answering questions from schoolchildren in Downing Street, said: “We need as many people as possible to go to net zero so that they are not producing too much carbon dioxide by the middle of the century.
“Now, I think it can be done. It’s going to be very, very tough, this summit. And I’m very worried, because it might go wrong and we might not get the agreements that we need."
The Prime Minister added: "It’s touch and go.”
Johnson chose to host a press conference with children ahead of “perhaps the most important summit that this country has had in our lifetimes”.
He told schoolchildren in Downing Street: “If you look at what the UK has done, we’ve cut our own C02 emissions massively, we’ve cut coal emissions massively.”
Johnson named and shamed Coca-Cola as being one of twelve big corporations “producing the overwhelming bulk of the world’s plastics”.
He told pupils: “There are about twelve companies at the moment, twelve big corporations, that are producing the overwhelming bulk of the world’s plastics.
“Big famous drinks companies that you may know but I won’t name. I don’t know why not, but I won’t name them.”
He then added: “Coca-Cola, for instance, and others, which are responsible for producing huge quantities of plastic, and we’ve got to move away from that and we’ve got to find other ways of packaging and selling our stuff.”
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